<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" ><channel><title>Newsvine - John Lam's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - John Lam's Column - Articles and Seeds</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2009</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:55:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:28:55 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable: An Obsolescence · Clay Shirky</title><description><![CDATA["There is no general model for newspapers to replace the one the internet just broke.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John 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+0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>A Viable Alternative to the Paulson Bail-out</title><description><![CDATA[The masters of the universe now seem masters of nothing. Within the financial world though, alternatives to the Treasury plan emerge from bright and independent money managers outside the group-think of large corporatist investment banks.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John Lam]]></dc:creator><link>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/24/1903157-a-viable-alternative-to-the-paulson-bail-out</link><guid>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/24/1903157-a-viable-alternative-to-the-paulson-bail-out</guid><category>us-news</category><category>finance</category><category>banking</category><category>crisis</category><category>investment-banking</category><category>liquidity</category><category>john-hussman</category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:37:14 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Photography as a Weapon: Filmmaker Errol Morris on Photojournalism · Zoom</title><description><![CDATA[In this extensive interview, director and filmmaker Errol Morris wonders why deception in imagery works so well in subverting popular opinion.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John Lam]]></dc:creator><link>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/22/1897901-photography-as-a-weapon-filmmaker-errol-morris-on-photojournalism-zoom</link><guid>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/22/1897901-photography-as-a-weapon-filmmaker-errol-morris-on-photojournalism-zoom</guid><category>journalism</category><category>photography</category><category>photojournalism</category><category>errol-morris</category><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:00:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Sensing Air Quality at the Beijing Olympics · Associated Press</title><description><![CDATA[To verify and independently assess air quality not far from the Bird's Nest stadium, the Associated Press has begun monitoring and publishing air quality data and associated photographs. 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There nearly every family has a car, but only a third of them commute by car. The rest use the bus, voluntarily.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John Lam]]></dc:creator><link>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/21/1443525-curitiba-plans-for-a-sustainable-city</link><guid>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/21/1443525-curitiba-plans-for-a-sustainable-city</guid><category>science</category><category>transportation</category><category>sustainability</category><category>architecture</category><category>planning</category><category>land-use</category><category>urbanism</category><category>curitiba</category><category>jaime-lerner</category><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:58:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>JPMorgan in Negotiations to Raise Bear Stearns Bid to $10 a Share</title><description><![CDATA[JPMorgan shares jumped last Monday on news of the deal. Bear Stearns shares never traded as low as $2, as shareholders valued them more than twice as much.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John Lam]]></dc:creator><link>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/24/1386268-jpmorgan-in-negotiations-to-raise-bear-stearns-bid-to-10-a-share</link><guid>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/24/1386268-jpmorgan-in-negotiations-to-raise-bear-stearns-bid-to-10-a-share</guid><category>business</category><category>united-states</category><category>wall-street</category><category>finance</category><category>banking</category><category>bear-stearns</category><category>federal-reserve-bank</category><category>investment-banking</category><category>jpmorgan</category><category>mergers-acquisitions</category><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:06:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Good Guy Behind &quot;Don't Be Evil&quot; and Google Mail</title><description><![CDATA[This was a big week for Paul Buchheit. His new company, FriendFeed, no longer in private beta, launched Tuesday. In addition, they announced $5 million in venture funding.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rajesh Barnabas]]></dc:creator><link>http://RajeshBarnabas.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/29/1335333-the-good-guy-behind-dont-be-evil-and-google-mail</link><guid>http://RajeshBarnabas.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/29/1335333-the-good-guy-behind-dont-be-evil-and-google-mail</guid><category>technology</category><category>google</category><category>adsense</category><category>gmail</category><category>friendfeed</category><category>paul-buchheit</category><pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:58:50 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="/_vine/images/users/tn/RajeshBarnabas/1335369.jpg" width="75" height="113" /></item><item><title>Daylight Saving Wastes Energy: A New Study</title><description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom holds daylight-savings time reduces lighting and electricity use. Two years ago when 77 Indiana counties switched to conform, though, electricity use and costs went up. More people came home to hotter homes and used more air conditioning.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John Lam]]></dc:creator><link>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/27/1329754-daylight-saving-wastes-energy-a-new-study</link><guid>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/27/1329754-daylight-saving-wastes-energy-a-new-study</guid><category>us-news</category><category>energy</category><category>indiana</category><category>electricity</category><category>sustainability</category><category>daylight-savings-time</category><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:03:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>US Judge censors WikiLeaks.org by ordering DNS records disabled</title><description><![CDATA[After an United States District Court in California ordered a permanent injunction against international whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.org, the site has gone offline.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John Lam]]></dc:creator><link>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/19/1310930-us-judge-censors-wikileaksorg-by-ordering-dns-records-disabled</link><guid>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/19/1310930-us-judge-censors-wikileaksorg-by-ordering-dns-records-disabled</guid><category>us-news</category><category>law</category><category>censorship</category><category>free-speech</category><category>liberty</category><category>wiki</category><category>press-freedom</category><category>wikileaks</category><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:47:26 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?</title><description><![CDATA[The Mac may be the cooler computer, but aren't there more PC users in the world?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John Lam]]></dc:creator><link>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/07/1285872-is-obama-a-mac-and-clinton-a-pc</link><guid>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/07/1285872-is-obama-a-mac-and-clinton-a-pc</guid><category>technology</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>nytimes</category><category>hillary-rodham-clinton</category><category>presidential-election-of-2008</category><category>advertising-and-marketing</category><pubDate>Fri, 8 Feb 2008 02:27:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Pacific Islanders' Ancestry Emerges in Genetic Study</title><description><![CDATA[An international team of scientists found evidence that Polynesians and Micronesians were more closely related to East Asians, and had few links to western Pacific islanders.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John Lam]]></dc:creator><link>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/01/1271363-pacific-islanders-ancestry-emerges-in-genetic-study</link><guid>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/01/1271363-pacific-islanders-ancestry-emerges-in-genetic-study</guid><category>nytimes</category><category>world</category><category>asia</category><category>taiwan</category><category>pacific-ocean</category><category>papua-new-guinea</category><category>far-east</category><category>solomon-islands</category><category>genetics-and-heredity</category><category>south-and-southeast-asia-and-pacific-areas</category><category>archaeology-and-anthropology</category><category>micronesia</category><category>melanesia</category><category>bismark</category><category>polynesia-region</category><pubDate>Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:35:57 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Lam]]></dc:creator><link>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/31/1268034-sigma-dp1-debuts-spring-2008</link><guid>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/31/1268034-sigma-dp1-debuts-spring-2008</guid><category>technology</category><category>photography</category><category>digital</category><category>camera</category><category>imaging</category><category>foveon</category><category>carver-mead</category><category>sensor-design</category><category>sigma-corporation</category><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:54:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>High Mercury Levels Are Found in Tuna Sushi</title><description><![CDATA[Tests on sushi bought in Manhattan revealed mercury levels that exceed accepted safety standards.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John Lam]]></dc:creator><link>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/23/1248022-high-mercury-levels-are-found-in-tuna-sushi</link><guid>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/23/1248022-high-mercury-levels-are-found-in-tuna-sushi</guid><category>nytimes</category><category>environmental-protection-agency</category><category>dining</category><category>seafood</category><category>food-and-drug-administration</category><category>sushi</category><category>tuna</category><category>manhattan-nyc</category><category>mercury-metal</category><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:34:43 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>X chromosome causes disprortionately more speciation, new U/Rochester research shows.</title><description><![CDATA["Researchers at the University of Rochester believe they have just confirmed a controversial theory of evolution. The X chromosome is a strikingly powerful force in the origin of new species.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John Lam]]></dc:creator><link>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/16/1029443-x-chromosome-causes-disprortionately-more-speciation-new-urochester-research-shows</link><guid>http://johnlam.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/16/1029443-x-chromosome-causes-disprortionately-more-speciation-new-urochester-research-shows</guid><category>science</category><category>biology</category><category>speciation</category><category>molecular-biology</category><category>university-of-rochester</category><category>daven-presgraves</category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:41:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>